Everyone in the conference room was stunned and looked at this uninvited guest.
The Master of All Souls College, John Weeks?
what 's wrong?
How did he know that Li Mu graduated today?
Well, actually this is not difficult to understand.
Because they still need to apply to the school to apply for Li Mu's graduation certificate, it means that the school already knows about it.
So it was not surprising that John Weeks learned about this.
But the key question is, why would he come over at this time and invite Li Mu to become a professor at Wanling College?
Everyone felt a little puzzled.
Of course, as the dean of Merton College, Martin Taylor came out, looked at John Weeks with squinted eyes, and said, "Wicks, what do you want to do?"
"Are you coming to rob someone from our Merton College?"
Weeks said with a smile: "Don't get me wrong, I am not robbing people. After all, Dr. Li has not officially joined your college. We are now in a fair competition."
"So, it depends on Dr. Li's personal wishes."
After saying that, he turned his head and looked at Li Mu, "Dr. Li, what do you think?"
Everyone immediately looked at Li Mu.
Indeed, although it was a bit unethical for John Wicks to suddenly come over at this time, no matter what, in the end it did depend on Li Mu's choice.
All Souls College has a very special status in the University of Oxford. It can be called the first college in Oxford.
Although Merton College is also very special, it is still slightly less famous.
But facing everyone's gaze, Li Mu was actually the most confused.
Why did Dean John Weeks suddenly come over?
The only time he met the dean was when it was raining heavily that day. He ran out for a stroll. Finally, he accidentally entered All Spirits College and met him——
oh!
Li Mu suddenly remembered that John Weeks invited him to join All Souls Academy, but he refused.
This would explain why John Wicks came over again today.
After all, they have already made this plan!
Li Mu shook his head helplessly, and then said to John Weeks: "Sorry, Dean Weeks, I am very grateful for your invitation, but I want to be more familiar with Merton College, so..."
"I can only say sorry."
Martin Taylor immediately laughed, walked up and patted John Weeks on the arm, saying: "Look, these are our people, not your people, old John, give up."
Around him, other professors from Merton College also had smiles on their faces and nodded towards Li Mu.
These are our people!
"Okay, it seems plan A has failed."
However, for Li Mu's rejection, John Weeks only showed a slight regret on his face, and then he laughed again and said to Li Mu: "So, I wonder, Dr. Li, would you like to be our millionaire at the same time?" Where are the professors from the Spiritual Academy?”
The Merton College professors and Dean Martin Taylor, who had been smiling just now, were stunned for a moment.
What?
Wanling College didn't care that Li Mu had agreed to become a professor in their college, and still continued to invite Li Mu to become their professor?
This is really rare.
At Oxford University, few people can hold teaching positions in two colleges at the same time. Basically, they only hold teaching positions in one college.
Because these colleges generally have their own temperament and personality.
Once everyone agrees to join a college, you won't lose face and invite others to join your own college.
And now, as the most special college of Oxford University, today it is shameful to invite Li Mu to be their professor at the same time after Li Mu has agreed to become a professor at Merton College.
Of course Li Mu also knew the meaning of this matter, so he said with some surprise: "Dean Weeks, are you sure?"
Martin Taylor also frowned and said: "Old John, are you sure you are not joking? Will other people in your college agree?"
"Of course I am serious." John Weeks waved his hand: "As for whether other people in our college will agree or not, you don't need to worry. I am the dean and I have the final say."
"Moreover, the only professor of mathematics in our college is Simon Downers. And given the status of mathematics in academia, I think this is not enough."
"What's more... Dr. Li is also a world-famous physicist."
John Weeks looked at Li Mu with a smile.
"We at Wanling Academy need talents like you."
The other professors at Merton College looked at each other.
Yes, in addition to his great achievements in mathematics, Li Mu can also be regarded as a grand master in physics.
The discovery of the fundamental force known as the fundamental force, the dimensional force, has made the entire physics community crazy. Its status is independent of quantum mechanics and relativity, and it is the third theoretical direction besides quantum mechanics and relativity. , its greatest potential lies in its ability to unify the first two and realize the theory of everything in physics.
As the founder of the dimensional force theory, Li Mu is certainly a master-level figure.
With this status, it is enough for him to hold teaching positions in two colleges at the same time.
For a moment, everyone in Merton College looked at each other.
Until the end, Martin Taylor looked at Li Mu and gave advice: "Li, since Weeks said so, I think it's good for you to agree to him, at least it's a good thing for you. "
"But..." Suddenly Martin Taylor turned to look at John Weeks again: "Don't tell me what kind of teaching position All Souls College can give Li Mu. He is just a quasi-professor, not a full professor."
When this was mentioned, others nodded.
"Yes, it must be a full professor, not an associate professor. Otherwise, it's okay not to go."
In the UK, there are actually two professional titles at professorial level, one is full professor, and below that is associate professor.
Generally, those who can become associate professors in other countries are rated by professors. However, it is different in the UK. Since each university here strictly controls the number of professors, sometimes a major in a college often has There are only one or two full professors to ensure their absolute authority within the college.
Therefore, associate professors emerged from this. If associate professors want to become full professors, they often need to wait until full professors retire or resign before they can be promoted.
Although associate professors are also highly respected, their status is still inferior to that of full professors.
Now that Li Mu is theirs, of course they must fight for corresponding benefits for Li Mu.
However, then John Weeks laughed: "Don't worry, you don't have to worry about this matter. The person Wan Ling College has prepared for Li Mu must be a full professor. As I said just now, Wan Ling College's mathematics There is only one full professor, Simon Downers, and he welcomed Li Mu with both hands."
"So Li Mu will definitely become the second full professor of mathematics at Wanling College. Of course, he will also serve as a full professor of physics by the way."
"By the way, didn't you let Li Mu concurrently serve as your full professor of physics?"
Speaking of this, John Weeks raised his eyebrows and said to Martin Taylor with a smile.
Martin Taylor said: "You don't need to worry about this matter. Of course our college will not forget this kind of thing."
"Haha, that's good, I won't say more then."
John Weeks turned his head and said to Li Mu: "Well, Dr. Li... Oh, I'll call you Professor Li in advance. After you finish handling the matter here, I'll be waiting for you at Wanling College. welcome."
Then, he left here with a smile.
When I went out, I closed the door of the conference room.
Martin Taylor curled his lips, this guy was quite polite.
But finally, there were no outsiders in this conference room.
Then, he looked at Li Mu again and regained his seriousness.
"Okay, Li, then I will formally offer you an offer of employment on behalf of Merton College."
He also took out a letter of appointment from under the conference table that he had prepared a long time ago, then walked up to Li Mu and handed the letter of appointment to him with both hands: "You are hired to be a full professor at Merton College, University of Oxford. , are you willing to accept it?”
Looking down at the beautiful appointment letter, Li Mu took it with a smile.
"Of course, it's an honor."
In the conference room, there was warm applause again.
Everyone at Merton College celebrated as their college welcomed a powerful new colleague.
A few more professors found some more spray flowers from somewhere and sprayed them on Li Mu, and a lot of fireworks and ribbons fell on him, making him dumbfounded.
And Andrew Wiles also walked up to him, stretched out his hand to him, and said with a smile: "Welcome to join Merton College, Professor Li, we will be colleagues from now on."
Looking at Wiles, who was his mentor a few minutes ago, and now his colleague, Li Mu sighed with emotion for the impermanence of the world, and then smiled and extended his hand: "Thank you, Professor Wiles, please take care of me in the future."
…
I jumped from the student era to the professor era all of a sudden.
It was indeed quite sudden for Li Mu.
Of course, it’s unexpected, but it’s reasonable.
With his academic achievements, this thing is normal, or it is normal for every genius.
Just like Peter Schulz, he was hired as a W3 professor by the University of Bonn immediately after graduating from his Ph.D., and the W3 professor is the highest-level professor in Germany.
The only slight difference is that Li Mu not only became a full professor of Merton College, but also a full professor of Wanling College.
And considering his age, he is also the youngest full professor in the history of the entire Oxford University, not to mention, he is also a full professor in two colleges.
As the news spread, it first caused excitement throughout the UK.
The British people have always been proud of their two world-famous universities, Oxford University and Cambridge University. Now that they learned about this matter, it immediately brought about various discussions.
"Hey, have you heard? Oxford University hired a Chinese named Li Mu to become the youngest full professor in their history! He is even a double full professor at All Souls College and Merton College!"
"Oh! My God, is this the young man who just proved Goldbach's conjecture? It's unbelievable!"
Such conversations have become almost routine in the UK these days.
As the old enemy of Oxford University, the University of Cambridge even called out after learning about this matter: "Li Mu, Oxford is not worthy of your joining. Come and join us at Cambridge! This is the place where you have walked out of Newton, and it is the most suitable place for you." Such a genius uses his talents!”
They even went out of Trinity College in Newton and sent an invitation directly to Li Mu, and even made a promise that as long as Li Mu stayed at Trinity College long enough, they were willing to grant Li Mu the honor of Lucas Chair Professor. Position.
The Lucas Chair Professor is a special position at the University of Cambridge. Only people with high enough reputation and ability can hold this position. For example, this position has been held by Newton, Hawking, Dirac and others before.
And now Cambridge University is actually willing to offer this honorary position to attract Li Mu to join, which once again caused the whole UK to be excited.
BCC announced in the news that day: [Both Oxford and Cambridge have been conquered by Li Mu! 】
The Times also commented: [The influence of the genius of the century! 】
Various newspapers carried relevant reports.
The most famous British gossip newspaper "The Sun" has an even more novel angle: [A handsome genius from the East, what kind of relationship history does he have? 】
Of course, the news didn't just spread in the UK, it quickly spread to the world.
For a moment, the doctoral students who had lamented that Li Mu hadn't graduated yet all started celebrating.
【oh! OMG! He finally graduated! 】
[Finally, I won’t feel like a waste anymore! 】
[Dear Professor Li, congratulations on becoming a professor! Let us ordinary doctoral students get out of the sea of misery! 】
God knows how much pressure Li Mu put on them when he was still a doctoral student.
Who has seen such a doctoral student?
Graduate as soon as possible, hurry up.
…
In this way, Li Mu simply graduated and attracted all kinds of attention from all over the world.
But for him, he felt a little unable to complain at this time.
"Slander! This is slandering me!"
He slapped the copy of "The Sun" on the table.
Li Mu cursed.
Damn, this "Sun" really knows how to make things up.
He actually compiled his relationship history in the newspaper, saying that he had left a lot of love debts in the past.
This is not even the first issue, but the second.
I guess there were a lot of interested readers in the first issue, so I continued writing the second issue.
Isa was also on the side, and she asked: "Are you saying that everything written in The Sun is false?"
She brought this newspaper over. Li Mu didn't have the habit of reading newspapers, so he wouldn't have paid attention to this matter. Otherwise, he would have reported it as early as the first issue.
"certainly."
Li Mu nodded: "I didn't know I knew so many girls."
It almost made him, a person who has been single since his mother's birth, really think that he has the talent of a love saint.
"What Lucia, what Alice...are all made up."
Feng Ping was killed.
(End of chapter)
